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Sparkly nostalgia boom boom
Dec. 31st, 2011 09:06 pmThere was a post on tumblr about the names people chose for their Mabari in Dragon Age. I started thinking of the various names I chose for mine, and decided my favourite was Mr Snuggles, belonging to my f!Cousland, named after a character I liked as a kid, Dr Snuggles. (Second favourite: Deathfang)
I looked it up on Wikipedia and discovered that Peter Ustinov did the voice and Douglas Adams wrote for it! Here's one of the episodes he wrote, I was awash in nostalgia during the credits but the episode itself, while entertaining and science fictiony in it's way, wasn't SUPER familiar. I remember owning a picture book of an episode which mum later described as The Most Boring Children's Book Ever (I apparently made her read it to me constantly :D), after investigation it turned out to be The Astounding Treacle Tree. FAR less coherent but SO MUCH NOSTALGIA. Most of the plot points I remember finding confusing turn out to simply not make any sense. But there's slightly more female presence, including a lady robot I remember thinking was super cool. (Plus: clouds! Rainbows! Spaceships! Talking animals! No wonder I loved it)
It's weird noticing how 70s it all is, that sort of style was still fairly current during my early childhood so didn't stand out to me at the time.
Douglas Adams also wrote my favourite childhood Doctor Who episode (in which Romana is very geeky and there are complicated time shenanigans). I'm half expecting him to have somehow written my favourite Astro Boy episode too (the one with the girl robot who can lie. I found her FASCINATING. Youtube is being unhelpful, alas)
Anyway, I hope you are having an enjoyable and possibly slightly less nerdy new year's eve/day :)
I looked it up on Wikipedia and discovered that Peter Ustinov did the voice and Douglas Adams wrote for it! Here's one of the episodes he wrote, I was awash in nostalgia during the credits but the episode itself, while entertaining and science fictiony in it's way, wasn't SUPER familiar. I remember owning a picture book of an episode which mum later described as The Most Boring Children's Book Ever (I apparently made her read it to me constantly :D), after investigation it turned out to be The Astounding Treacle Tree. FAR less coherent but SO MUCH NOSTALGIA. Most of the plot points I remember finding confusing turn out to simply not make any sense. But there's slightly more female presence, including a lady robot I remember thinking was super cool. (Plus: clouds! Rainbows! Spaceships! Talking animals! No wonder I loved it)
It's weird noticing how 70s it all is, that sort of style was still fairly current during my early childhood so didn't stand out to me at the time.
Douglas Adams also wrote my favourite childhood Doctor Who episode (in which Romana is very geeky and there are complicated time shenanigans). I'm half expecting him to have somehow written my favourite Astro Boy episode too (the one with the girl robot who can lie. I found her FASCINATING. Youtube is being unhelpful, alas)
Anyway, I hope you are having an enjoyable and possibly slightly less nerdy new year's eve/day :)
